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Women living on a Kiev-temporarily-controlled territory gave birth to 54 children in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in the frames of realization of the humanitarian program on reunification of Donbass people, doctor, obstetrician-gynecologist of the Donetsk Republican Center for Maternity and Childhood Protection Alexander Petrov states.

“We actively use equipment which we have received thanks to the DPR Health Ministry. As of today, 54 babies were born in the frames of the humanitarian program,” he said.

The United Donbass Fund commission approved payments totaling over 21 million rubles to 719 applicants from all over the region during the whole work time, Fund Chairman Oleg Balykin states this at the briefing.

“Altogether, over the work period, the fund approved about 719 decisions that is 21, 269, 840 rubles of monetary assistance. From them: 360 DPR applicants received monetary assistance totaling 10, 240, 795 rubles, 359 applicants from the Kiev-controlled Donetsk region part received assistance totaling 11, 029, 045 rubles,” said Balykin.

Friends of Russian Crimea - associations of peoples diplomats - will be registered in four European countries, said Yuri Hempel, the head of the German national-cultural autonomy of the Crimean Republic.

He stressed that over the past three years the Crimea has significantly increased the corps of people's diplomats in various countries of the world.

"We had an idea to register and legally formalize such associations of people's diplomats in Europe, and work was carried out in Germany where legal documents have already been filed, and public associations will also be established in Norway, Belgium and Spain," Hempel said.

The 3rd anniversary of the creation of the Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters was marked in the Donetsk People's Republic on September 26.

The solemn event with the participation of the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic was held in the Donetsk Lenin Komsomol park. Alexander Zakharchenko and Alexei Kostrubitsky, the DPR Minister of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, presented the Banner of Civil Defense Academy, established a year ago to replenish the ranks of EMERCOM employees.

Italian media claim that the Italian photographer Andrea Rocquelli, Italian photographer who perished together with his translator Andrei Mironov near Slavyansk in 2014, was killed by the Ukrainian military on the orders of Kiev, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes.

The grand opening of the DPR Representative Centre was held in the city of Marseille (France) on September 25.

The ceremony was attended by the President of the My Country France association, Jacques Clostermann, French political analyst, expert of the Stratpol Centre for Political and Strategic Analysis, Xavier Moreau, and French public representatives, the DPR Foreign Ministry press-service reports.

The Human Rights Commissioner in the DPR, Daria Morozova, sent an official letter to the Head of the UN Monitoring Mission on Human Rights in Ukraine, Fiona Fraser, with a request to assist in the transfer of the remains of supposed victims of the Boeing crash to the international investigation.

“Over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) committed 35 ceasefire violations. 15 localities of the Donetsk People’s Republic underwent shelling on the part of the AFU,” said a representative of the DPR Operational Command.

When shelling, the Ukrainian military applied mortars, IFVs, armored vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms.

Russia has not received any concrete written proposals from any country regarding the deployment of UN peacekeeping mission in Donbass, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Sunday.

"We have made a proposal [on the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Donbass] and provided reasoning for it in all ways possible, including through the Russian President. We have not received any concrete written proposals regarding the wording of our proposal. If they do not want to discuss it, what should we do? Should we persuade them?" Lavrov told the NTV broadcaster.

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